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Earnings
Companies listed on tech-heavy Kosdaq score high in Q3 on pandemic
South Korean companies listed on the tech-heavy Kosdaq market posted one of their best third quarters ever thanks to strong sales related to anti-viru...
Nov 19, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Kospi-listed companies perform well, even without Samsung
Kospi-listed companies’ operating profits have turned bullish in the third quarter compared to the year-earlier period, swinging back from the n...
Nov 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Kakao webtoon platform Piccoma becomes No.1 grossing app worldwide
Kakao Corp., South Korea's platform giant, announced on Nov. 9 that its webtoon (digital comics) platform Piccoma has become the No. 1 grossing mobile...
Nov 09, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
K-beauty, fashion companies ride ESG wave
South Korea's fashion and beauty companies are jumping on the environmental, social, governance (ESG) bandwagon to lure more environmentally conscious...
Oct 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Electronics embraces ESG for company assessment
South Korean companies are becoming more proactive in prioritizing environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. In line with the ESG wave, Sa...
Oct 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Teachers' Credit Union
Korean teachers' fund pockets sweet returns from US cloud-based platform
The Korean Teachers' Credit Union (KTCU) has secured returns nearly four times its $37.6 million investment in the US cloud-based platform provider El...
Oct 12, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Top Korean travel platform Yanolja to join startups lining up for IPOs
South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja is planning to list on the domestic stock market in 2022, paving the way for Singapore’s GIC...
Sep 29, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
S. Korea’s big companies rattled by retail investors’ growing influence
South Korea’s big companies such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai often make shareholder-friendly moves to accommodate institutional investors, who fl...
Sep 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech
S. Korea's Kakao Work to rival Slack, messenger platform apps
Kakao Enterprise Corp., the artificial intelligence service unit of South Korea’s Kakao Corp., has launched a business messenger platform to com...
Sep 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s car-sharing platform becomes 12th unicorn following $42.5 mn injection
South Korea’s leading car-sharing platform Socar Inc. has become the country's 12th unicorn valued at around 1.1 trillion won after re...
Sep 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech
Korea’s big data companies eye IPOs as investors flush with cash
Tech investors are set to be deluged with initial public offerings as South Korea’s big data companies are pushing to list their shares amid a d...
Sep 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korea’s major companies’ Q2 overseas sales drop 20% due to pandemic
South Korea’s top 100 companies saw their overseas sales shrink by a fifth in the second quarter from the year-earlier period, weighed by the fa...
Sep 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy storage system
Korean ESS companies ramp up overseas business eyeing 40% revenue hikes
South Korean tech heavyweights Samsung SDI Co. and LG Chem Ltd. are expected to expand their market share as they secure hefty energy storage system (...
Aug 31, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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k-webtoon
How Korean platform giants disrupted the digital comics market with webtoons
South Korean webtoons (mobile and digital comics) are taking over the digital comics markets in Japan and the US. Market watchers claim it is&nbs...
Aug 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air, Hahn & Company closer to finalizing $845 mn in-flight meal service deal
Korean Air Lines Co. and local private equity firm Hahn & Company may sign the share purchase agreement (SPA) for the flag carrier’s in-flig...
Aug 19, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
[Interview] Manga platform Piccoma ready to take over Japan's comics market
Manga platform Piccoma is gearing up to take over Japan’s massive digital comics market as the company continues to see prominent growth in its ...
Aug 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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sneaker resale market
Companies eye $2 bn sneaker resale market to lure next generation
Korea’s sneaker resale market is gaining traction as it becomes increasingly lucrative for buyers and sellers. The $2 billion sneaker resale mar...
Aug 10, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPO
Korean game platform seeks $323 mn IPO in non-contact business boom
Kakao Games Corp., a unit of South Korea’s top mobile messaging app operator, is seeking to raise up to 384 billion won ($323 million) from an i...
Aug 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Naver inks $83.8 million investment deal in SM Entertainment to boost streaming platform
Naver, a Korean online platform giant, has invested 100 billion won ($83.8 million) in SM Entertainment's subsidiaries SMEJ Plus and Mystic Story in a...
Aug 04, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean travel platform My Real Trip raises $36 million amid sluggish travel industry
My Real Trip, Korea’s leading online travel platform, has received 43.2 billion won ($36 million) in funding from domestic and overseas investor...
Jul 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Local activist fund announces tender offer for 1.2 million warrants in Korean Air's parent company
A Korean activist fund that failed to oust Hanjin KAL's current management during a shareholder meeting in March is trying to increase its stake ...
Jul 23, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Air
Korean Air to sell in-flight business to Hahn & Company for about $840 mn
Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. has tentatively agreed to sell its in-flight duty free and meal service units to the country's second-largest private equity...
Jul 06, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Buzzvil eyes unicorn status with ad platform
Reading the biographical novel of nuclear physicist Lee Whi-so made his heart beat. "I, too, want to be a creator of something that will change the wo...
Apr 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
TPG buys Korean health supplement company for about $250 mn
Private equity firm TPG has acquired a small-sized South Korean dietary supplement manufacturer for around $250 million, in its first Korean buyout de...
Dec 29, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Meritz Sec commits $425 mn to India’s housing finance platform
Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has committed $425 million to a housing finance platform in India as an anchor investor, in its first foray into the countr...
Nov 14, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Self-guided trip platform expands into themed travels
Planning a trip is no vacation. Booking a flight and hotel isn't the end and searching for activities and mode of transportation is a must. This is wh...
Nov 06, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hana Fin to buy stake in French car park company from Ardian
Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has agreed to buy a 15% stake in France’s leading car park operator Indigo Group from Ardian through a co-investmen...
Apr 25, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Naver to challenge Amazon with launch of Smart Store platform in Spain
South Korea’s top online portal operator Naver Corp. is taking its online shopping platform Smart Store to Spain to support small merchants in...
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Hynix introduces Gauss Labs-developed AI solution to semicon process (edited)
SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has started to improve production efficiency and yield by introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to...
1 MINUTES AGO
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Korean games
Samsung Electronics opens gaming-focused shopping platform(edited)
Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday launched the "Samsung Game Portal" on Samsung.com in Korea, as the South Korean tech giant seeks to strengthen i...
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